Includes bibliographical references

"This revised and edited version is published by the Command and Staff College Foundation of Quantico, Va. through a grant from the General Gerald C. Thomas Endowment Fund." --p. [ii]

[v. 1]. -- Sect. I. The nature of conflict, emerging threats, and U.S. national security interests. -- Continuity and change in future conflict and war / Robert L. Pfaltzgraff -- Redefining the spectrum of conflict / Ted Greenwood -- DESERT STORM: Exception or rule in the years ahead? / BGen Paul Van Riper -- Sect. II. Forward deployed strategy and forces. -- Naval expeditionary forces and strategic planning / General Alfred Gray -- Regional security arrangements and forward deployed forces / LtGen Bernard Trainor -- Global strategy and forward deployed forces / Jacquelyn Davis -- Sect. III. Naval expeditionary forces, power projection, and combat missions. -- Conventional operations and sea-based forces / LtGen Walter Boomer -- Special operations and sea-based forces / BGen Charles Wilhelm -- The impact of advanced weapons proliferation on combat missions / Theodore Clark and Thomas Harvey

[v. 2]. -- Sect. I. Naval expeditionary forces, power projection, and stability missions. -- Compellence and escalation control: the value of visible forward deployed forces / Richard Shultz -- Security assistance, humanitarian assistance, and related operations -- LtGen H. C. Stackpole, III -- The role of the U.N. in the maintenance of world order / Thomas R. Pickering -- Naval power projection and expeditionary forces - a western European perspective / David Nicholls -- Sect. II. The 21st century and naval expeditionary forces: developing issues and constraining factors / Jim Brooke -- Acquisition priorities and R&D strategies / MajGen Robert Tiebout

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